Knife protector



Sept. 1-6 '1924.

G. E. CHATILLON KNIFE PROTECTOR Filed March 13 1923 INVENT OR ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 16, 1924.

UNITED PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. CHATILLON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO JOHN OI-IATILLO'N & SONS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

KNIFE PROTECTOR.

Application filed March 13, 1923. Serial No. 624,728.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. CHATILLON, a citizen of the United States, and resident of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knife Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to knife protectors and has for its object to provide a flat protector for a knife or similar article whereby it can be sent through the mail without liability of cutting the enclosure, or can be exhibited for sale in conjunction with other knives or articles without liability of one damaging the cutting edge of another.

The invention in substance comprises an interiorly slotted rectangular cardboard of length greater than the length of the blade from the handle to the point and of width sufficient to cover the blade at its widest portion, the slots being so arranged that a slot adjacent one end receives and retains the tip and one or preferably two slots ad 1 jacent the other end receive and retain the blade near the handle while the end of the protector abuts the handle to form a stop.

In the accompanying drawing, 1 is the protector composed of a sheet of hard pressed cardboard having adjacent one end a slot 2 to receive the end of the blade near the point, with the tip of the blade coming within the end of the protector and having adjacent the other end a slot 3 to receive an intermediate portion of the blade, with the edge 4 acting as a stop to abut the end of the handle 5. Preferably, an additional holding means is provided by means of slot 6 between slots 2 and 3 but adjacent slot 3 and slightly wider so as to permit the blade to be readily inserted in the manner shown, the dotted lines representing the portion of the blade on top of the protector and the solid lies, the portion of the blade on top.

' By this manner of insertion, the space on one side between slots 2 and 6, or 2 and 3 is left for advertising or descriptive matter.

This device can be conveniently shipped by parcel post in an envelope such as shown by dotted lines 7 in the drawing and will not be objectionable to the postal regulations or postal authorities. Also, knives provided placed in boxes and shipped or exhibited on a counter without the ground finished edge of one being damaged by another, and also permitting handling without especial care. A further advantage of the invention is that the entire knife can be inspected without removing from the holder.

While I preferably employ the three slots 2, 3 and 6 as specifically shown, because of the better holding power provided near the handle by the two slots 6 and 3, one being slightly wider than the other so as not to break or distort the protector in inserting the knife, the invention is not restricted thereto, as, so far as, I am aware, it is new to insert a blade of aknife between separated slots of a blade protector with the protector longer than the blade so as to cover the tip at one end and abut against the handle at the other to act as a stop.

What I claim is: r

A knife blade protector comprising a flexible flat body of a width greater than the knife blade, having spaced transverse slots therein through which said blade may be inserted by flexing the body to hold the blade at spaced portions adjacent the handle and the tip respectively, the end of said body adjacent the handle being shaped to abut against the same as a stop, and they other end of said body extending beyond the point of said blade.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York, and State of New York this 5th day of March, A. D. 1923.

GEORGE. E. CHATILLON.

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